Baikonur history, which was not Baikonur

June 2, 1955 the project construction ” Research the test site number 5 ” (NIIP-5) adopted by the Ministry of Defence Staff Soviet Union. This day is considered the birthday of the complex ” Baikonur ” which includes the city and the spaceport. How is this name? Spaceport named so after the nearest town? Or the newly built city was named spaceport? It turns out that in the early history of the city and the spaceport nothing and no one else has been charged with the Baikonur hellip;